the collective

Bare bones staging of new plays

Samantha Cooper
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group of artists include Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Wounds To The Face, and various
renditions ofScriptTease. Other recent credits: the award-winningGoliath(Culture Project, Wild Project,
Planet Connections);Foreign Bodies(Women Center Stage/Culture Project),Naked
Holidays(EndTimes),Hotel Suite(Rising Sun);The Vagina Monologues(Snapple Theater);The Killing of
Jacob Marr(221 Films). Samantha received her B.A. from UC San Diego, and has trained at
Shakespeare Santa Cruz, A.C.T., Circle In The Square, and the Lorenzo deMedici school in Florence,
Italy.She can't think of a more imaginative, playful gang with which to create. Oh, and she just joined
Twitter so...uh...follow her or something @SamanthaFCooper.

holly hepp-galvan
Holly Hepp-Galvan has just completed her MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College with Tina Howe and
Mark Bly. Her short play, Departure won the Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize and was a finalist for
the Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwriting Prize. While at Hunter, she won the Irv Zarkower Award
twice, for Oddities in 2010, and Andreas Esophagus in 2011. Recently, Holly was chosen as a
finalist for the National Short Play Award at City Theatre and was the 2012 Playwright-in-Residence
for Voices Inside/Out, a playwriting program for inmates at the Northpoint Training Center in
Kentucky. Also in Kentucky, she was recently commissioned by Pioneer Playhouse in Danville to
write a new adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Her play Tamed premieres in June of 2013.
Holly is also very active with Theatre for Young Audiences. Recent work includes Sprites which was
commissioned by Pollyanna Childrens Theatre and Ballet Austin, and will premiere at the Long
Center in Austin, Texas in January 2014. Her play Peter and the Piper will premiere with Pollyanna
in September of 2013. As well as playwriting, Holly is a performer and a teaching theatre artist. She has studied Kathakali in Kerala, India
and has developed a physical breathwork technique called Animare that she teaches in workshops to writers and actors. Additionally, for the
past twelve years, Holly has been Adjunct Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at both the College of Mount Saint Vincent and
Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. She teaches courses in Acting, Directing, Feature Writing, and New Media Journalism.

barrie gelles

, resident director

Barrie Gelles has been directing theatre, in professional and educational settings, since the minute she realized that she was always meant to do
so. She is partial to new works, and she is blessed to work with talented and inspiring actors and playwrights. She has worked, in various
capacities, with Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Gallery Players, Communicable Arts, Wingspan Arts, French Woods Festival for the Performing
Arts, among others. Aside from her penchant for new works, she has directed more than her fair share of musicals and Shakespeare comedies.
Barrie currently curates a post-show discussion series, GalleryTalks, for The Gallery Players and is a frequent collaborator with Sticky (Blue Box
Productions). In addition to Barrie's theatrical practice pursuits, she is a fellowship student in the PhD Program in Theatre at The Graduate Center
at CUNY. She completed her Masters, in Theatre, at Hunter College and has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was fortunate
enough to have a truly unique educational experience. Barrie has previously taught at Hunter College and currently teaches at Brooklyn College.
She has given lectures on Shakespeare in performance, directing Shakespeare, and musical theatre at various academic and cultural institutions.
Barrie has also taught a theatre-going class at the 92ndSt Y Tribeca. Barrie's scholarly areas of interests include American Musical Theatre,
Theories of Acting and Directing in Training and Practice, and the interrelation of Jewish Studies with Theatre Studies. When she isn't studying
theatre, writing about theatre, making theatre, or attending theatre, she is learning Yiddish.

brandon jones
Brandon Jones (actor/singer/songwriter/voiceover artist), is excited about the opportunity to work with such
wonderful artists and friends in this extraordinary collective. Recent theater credits include: You Can't Take
It With You (TACT), Inside The Rain (Dixon Place),Vanguard, Fallujah, Show Me Yours and I'll Show You...
(IMPACT 2012 Festival at Culture Project), Spoon River Anthology (Riverside Theater), ReEntry
(International Tour/Actors Theater of Louisville/Round House Theater), The Right Reverend Dupree in Exile
(Billie Holiday Theater), Mush (FringeNYC/LaMama), Lobby Hero (Whalers' Warf Theater) and Tales From
The Tunnel (Bleecker St Theater). Film credits include: Brothers Incorporated, Trust22, TAGGED!, Francis
of Williamsburg, Mildred Richards and NTA. Brandon is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.
Check out his website brandonjonesonline.com for news and updates.

nancy kelly
Nancy Kelly has been a member of this lovely group since 2005. She has worked as a modern dancer,
Nancy Kelly has been a member of this lovely group since 2005. She has worked as a modern dancer,
choreographer, director, dramaturg and actor in both San Francisco and New York and holds a degree in
dance from UC Berkeley and theater from Sarah Lawrence College. She has also trained at Bay Area
Theatre Sports, ACT and the PIT. She has been on the faculty of St. Francis College in Brooklyn and
CUNY City Tech teaching public speaking, acting and communications.

jesse manocherian
New York Credits include Leo in Parade (Gallery Players), Pineheart/Laneth in
New York Credits include Leo in Parade (Gallery Players), Pineheart/Laneth in The Hidden Sky (Prospect
Theater Co.),Stavros in Opa!(QTIP), and Simon in Maccabeat! (NYMF). Member AEA and graduate of
Northwestern University. So excited to be a founding member of Brass Tacks that I might explode!

mimian morales
Mimian Morales received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a
Mimian Morales received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a
Masters in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. She co-founded two theatre companies,
the first which debuted an original play she co-wrote and co-starred in at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
She then worked for 3 years with the Free Shakespeare Project, bringing Shakespeare to underserved
neighborhoods in urban Massachusetts. Since moving to New York, she has had the good fortune to work
with Communicable Arts and Barrie Gelles, performing in new works, and even more Shakespeare (which
she loves). She was recently seen in Brass Tacks Theatre Collectives productions of Wounds to the Face
and Oddities, or Frog Boy Live! A Musical Freak Show, as well as its Script Tease series, and is thrilled to
be a resident artist with the Collective. In addition to acting and writing, Miss Morales is also a singersongwriter, and you can hear her music at soundcloud.com/missmim.

alyson leigh rosenfeld

Aly is a New York-based actor/singer/avocado enthusiast. She is ecstatic to be a founding member of the
Brass Tacks Theatre Collective! Aly can currently be heard as the voice of Nurse Joy on Pokmon on
Cartoon Network. Recent theatrical credits: All The Rats and Rags (Joes Pub, 3LD, dir. Andrew Scoville),
#BFAproblems: The Musical, Opa! The Musical (dir. Sam Viverito), Taming of the Shrew (Hamptons
Shakespeare Festival), Les Troyens (The Metropolitan Opera, dir. Francesca Zambello), Chosen (The
Gallery Players), Twelfth Night (BoCoCa Festival), Rivers Current (New York Theatre Workshop), Oddities
(The Cell Theatre), Boy (dir. Jessica Hecht), The Living Goddess (dir. Jo Bonney), The House of Bernarda
Alba (Peter Jay Sharp Theater). BFA: NYU Tisch. alysonleighrosenfeld.com

celia mei rubin

Celia Mei RubinLondon West End credits: Narrator in JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT, Essie/Dance Captain in
London West End credits: Narrator in JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT, Essie/Dance Captain in original London
cast of PARADE, and Ensemble in CANDIDE with the English National Opera.

Touring credits: Stephanie Mangano in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, Anita Alternate/Dance Captain in
WEST SIDE STORY, and The Havana Girl in GUYS AND DOLLS.
Celia is making her Broadway debut as Swing/Assistant and Children's Dance Captain in MATILDA THE
MUSICAL. Having also worked as a tea consultant, Celia can be found scoping out tea houses and eating
soba noodles when not in the rehearsal studio.

jason daniel siegel

Jason Daniel Siegel is an actor, writer, and teacher. He has performed on stage in four boroughs, and he
has been featured in animated and live-action short and feature length films, and on various outposts of
the world wide web.. Jason is also a world-traveler. He has spent time in Oceania, the Middle East, South
America, Europe, and the Caribbean. But his most exotic trip was to northern California, where he spent a
week living in a giant redwood tree. Jason is thrilled to be a founding member of Brass Tacks!

kristin wahrheit
Kristin teacheshigh schooltheatre in the south Bronx.Recently performed with Communicable Arts in
Much Ado About Nothing (Conrade)and Twelfth Night(Maria). Favorite roles include Dignity (Maureen
O'Hara), Bugs (Mrs. Fox),Tongue of a Bird(Dessa), AMidsummer Night's
Dream(Titania),Hamlet(Gertrude),Picnic(Rosemary),The Wake of Jamey Foster (Marshael),Crazy for
You(Tess), and42nd Street(Peggy Sawyer). MA in Educational Theatre from NYU.

brett warwick
Brett Warwick is a NYC based actor, writer, and musician. He has a BFA in Acting from Emerson College,
and an MA in Theatre Studies from Hunter College. His most recent stage roles include Mr. Peachum in
The Three Penny Opera at Hunter College's Danny Kaye Playhouse and Saint Peter in fellow Collective
member Holly Hepp-Galvan's Saint Peter's Question. Brett is also in the perennial rock band, The
Trembling Turncoats. If you have any questions or concerns, he can be reached at
brettwarwick@gmail.com.

Guest Artists:
Stuart Bridgett
Madeline Fredrick
David Gelles
Alexandra Gellner
John Hume
Kate Juliano
Jonathan Silver
Jenson Smith
Benjamin Weaver